| Comment Number: | OL-10504559 |
| Received: | 3/9/2005 4:53:12 PM |
| Subject: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment |
| Title: | National Security Personnel System |
| CFR Citation: | 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901 |
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Comments:
I find it hard to believe that the United States Government look upon its employees with so little esteem and sinsitivity. The changes to the pay system will never be equitable because their are so many factors involved in determining who does and who does not receive a raise or bonus The most dangerous elements is supervisors and managers, eventhough we would like to believe that they are alway unbias and fair in their judgments we know they are not so. This change is going to cause so much discontent in the workforce that everyone is going to be everyone for him or herself and team work will go down the drain along with the activities mission. If we will no long have the right to appeal these decisions this is unAmerican and you are going to loose expertise throughout the workforce. Have my livelyhood depending on someone within my organization based on their openion alone is totally unacceptable. Pay for performance. Sounds good but I have been in Civil Service for almost 24 years and I have seen it over and over again where those who do an outstanding job each and every day but it is not a high profile job never get recognized and someone in a high profile job sits on their you know what and drinks coffee all day long but they get all the recognition and the exceptionaly performance ratings. So guess who will be getting the raises it is not going to be the little guy in the low profile job so tell me what is fair or equitable about a pay for performance system. Again you are going to create a system that will divide the workforce into the haves and have nots and you will through team work right out the window. Again, I ask you when did the Civil Service Employee become the enemy. We are asked everyday to do more and more with less and as a reward for our loyalty we get rewarded with a system that takes away our rights to appeal, our pay will depend on someone who may have something they do not like about us so they say not raise for you this year or they give us a less than perfect performance rating so no pay raise. Their is nothing wrong with the current Civil Service System. If the object of the new system is to get rid of deadwood there are procedures in the current system but supervisors and managers refuse to engage the process so what makes anyone think a new system will be any better.